Chapter 158 156 No Way to Go

Chapter 158 156. No way to go

After Sirius was introduced to all the students in the school by Dumbledore at breakfast, he gathered with Lupine and Lily in a professor's lounge.

This was not the first time they had met since they escaped from Azkaban. They had had a private gathering as early as last semester when Lupine first came to Carriage as a defense professor.

Their hatred is the most empathetic, and these three people are all the most directly affected victims of that ridiculous savior prophecy.

And now that they are reunited on the carriage, it is also about what happened back then.

"If the person who sneaked into the carriage from the beginning was Wormtail, then he has only done two things so far. He persuaded the third son of the Weasley family to rebel and reported the location of the carriage to the dementors. "

Lupine was undoubtedly the calmest among them. He knew that if he wanted to successfully find Wormtail, it was best to first understand his purpose in coming to the carriage.

Lily said coldly.

"Actually, there is no way to help us by asking what he did when he came to the school. These orders must have been given to him by his master. It is very likely that he himself does not know why he did this. We want to catch him. We can rely on what we know about him before."

She looked at Lupine and Sirius.

"All of us know that he is a very timid person. When he was in school, in this small group between you, he usually dared not violate school rules. Later, he chose to betray, and a large part of the reason was He gave in to his fear of Voldemort."

In private, Lily had no scruples and directly called the Dark Lord his old name that no one dared to mention.

"So it was definitely not his intention to come to this carriage. He must know that I have always been in this school, and he also knows that I want to kill him with my own hands every day of my life. This is Voldemort's strict order to him. Force him to obey!"

"With a forced mentality, even if he comes to the carriage, he can't stay with us every day. Seeing me, Lupin and Dumbledore appear in front of him all the time will scare him. Rat courage! If he wants to hide, he will definitely hide in a place where he rarely meets us every day."

"And before that, Dumbledore has led us to inspect the entire carriage three times, and we also speculated whether the infiltrator might be an Animagus. Dumbledore also had doubts about this possibility. He performed a complete reversal of transformation spell in the carriage, but achieved nothing, which meant that he found a place on the carriage where he could avoid this magic, and this place also met the previous condition. Usually we don’t notice it and we don’t go there.”

Lupine was the calmest of them all, and Lily was undoubtedly the smartest of them all.

She had no clue about the infiltrator's whereabouts before because she didn't have any information about this person at all. Now that she knew his identity and was one of the people she knew best, all her inferences became clear. Followed.

There were only a handful of times when Sirius came to the carriage. He could hear that Lily's analysis made sense, but he still stared.

"So where is this place?"

Lily did not go to see Sirius. She had always known that this wizard, who was closer to James than his biological brother, was just like his Animagus form. He was a stupid guy who was only suitable for accepting orders and then executing them.

There were three people in this lounge, and the only one she could discuss with was Lupin.

"We usually have classes on the carriage. There are a lot of potion materials in the Potions class that I need to cultivate and store myself. After your Defense Against the Dark Arts class started this year, I also applied for permission from Dumbledore and found many empty classrooms. It is used to store some dark magic creatures, so we have been to almost every room in the carriage. Is there any room that we have never entered or rarely entered, and we never take the initiative to think of it? "

Lupine had been listening carefully to Lily's analysis. His eyes were thinking and his brows were wrinkled unconsciously.

The atmosphere fell silent, not only Lupine was thinking, Lily was also recalling with a cold look on her face, wondering if they had missed anything.

Sirius was fidgeting in his chair a little anxiously. He couldn't do much to help at this time and could only wait for Lily and Lupin to come up with the results after using their brains.

Just when everything was quiet in the lounge, there was suddenly a faint, somewhat messy sound of footsteps above their heads.

The sound of footsteps stunned Lupine and Lily, who were originally deep in thought.

A flash of light suddenly lit up in both of their eyes.

"That's not necessarily a room!" Lu Ping said excitedly.

Lily's breathing became obviously faster: "You are the professor of Defense and History of Magic, and I am the professor of Potions and other elective courses. We can choose any room in the carriage as a classroom, but only Wouldn’t use one of the most special ones!”

Sirius became more and more agitated as he heard the two of them talking like they were guessing.

"Okay! Tell me! Where is this place!"

Lupine and Lily turned to look at him and said in unison.

"Astronomy Classroom!"

To be more precise, there is no classroom for astronomy class. This class requires students to observe the stars, and there is definitely no place suitable for this activity in the carriage. Therefore, when the carriage was exiled, Dumbledore sorted out the space on the top of the carriage as the place for astronomy class.

In addition to classes, Jon applied for permission from Professor McGonagall in his first year. Students are usually prohibited from entering privately. Astronomy classes are basically held at night. Flitwick, who is responsible for teaching astronomy, rarely goes there except during class. Not to mention Lily and Lupin who have nothing to do with this class.

Moreover, during the first three searches, although the top of the carriage was also involved, it was not the focus of the search. Dumbledore's reverse transformation magic may not have detected this place!

After thinking clearly about the key, Lily and Lupin did not stay any longer. They turned around and prepared to leave the lounge when they left, but Sirius was faster than them and rushed out of the room after they said the astronomy classroom.

It was morning now, and most students were in class. There were only three of them in the corridor, walking hurriedly towards the end of the carriage, then pushing open the door marked with the astronomy class sign, going up from a spiral staircase inside, and finally reaching the top of the carriage.

Although students were not allowed to come in here at will, they still had to be arranged by Mag to do routine cleaning work. The noise on the top of the carriage that Lily and the others heard just now in the lounge was the sound made by the cleaning students walking on it.

The sixth-grade students who had no classes in the morning all looked at the two professors and the new security guard today in surprise.

Lily said to them after walking on the top of the carriage.

"You don't have to do the cleaning work today, go back and rest."

The sixth-grade students had no objections even though they were confused, and after they left the carriage, Lily and the others each drew their wands.

"Be careful, if you find him, you must not let him run away."

They stood on the top of the carriage, the carriage was driving on a suburban road, and Muggle cars were overtaken from time to time, but the drivers seemed to turn a blind eye to this vehicle that should not have appeared on the road in the late twentieth century.

The villages and fields in the distance were constantly receding, and Lily and the other three were divided into three directions and conducted a comprehensive search of the entire astronomy classroom.

Soon Lupin found a major clue, and he called Sirius and Lily over.

In front of him, there was a palm-sized, lifted floor, and under the floor was a concave space of less than half a square.

Looking at the traces on the edge of the broken wooden board, this place was obviously dug out not long ago, and there was a layer of cashmere-like cushion at the bottom, and there were a lot of gray hairs on the cushions that were exactly the same as what Jon found in the spells classroom before, and there were a lot of dried chicken bones and nut shells around.

After seeing this place, Lily and Sirius both held their breath involuntarily.

"He had been hiding here before!" Sirius said with gritted teeth.

Lupin picked up the gray hair from the cushion and muttered to himself.

"That's him. This is what he left behind."

The calmer Lily became at this moment. She stared at the dry chicken bones and other food residues and said in a flat voice that was obviously suppressed.

"This is just where he used to hide. These garbage seem to have not been cleaned for at least a month. He has not returned here during this period!"

"But we can't rule out that he really gave up this place completely." Lupin said while casting a spell on the movable floor, "This can help us know whether he will come back later."

Then he restored the movable board to its original state.

They found new evidence that Wormtail was on the carriage, but they still didn't really find where he was.

Lily's guesses were all correct, but Wormtail was obviously more cautious. This place in the astronomy classroom was probably just one of his three burrows.

Afterwards, they conducted a large-scale inspection of the entire roof of the carriage, but found nothing more, and finally had to return to the carriage helplessly.

The new clues found in the astronomy classroom gave Lily and the others greater motivation. In the remaining days of October, they conducted a complete inspection of other suspicious places in the carriage, but found no new clues.

This made them feel very uneasy, and none of them said the most likely guess - that is, Wormtail was probably no longer in this carriage!

The search of Lily and the other two did not have any impact on the students in the school. During this time, Jon had been working hard to study the Patronus Charm. For some reason, he had a very bad premonition in his heart.

Even though the school is calm now, and no other accidents have occurred since the Dementor attack at the beginning of the school, Jon is always a little uneasy.

This uneasiness has its origin. Jon can be said to be the person on this carriage who is most familiar with Voldemort, who is now in a high position, besides Dumbledore. Even if he becomes more rational, his personality is still different. Rarely does it change.

He is vengeful and scheming. In the first half of the year, he suffered the humiliation of being cut off from his base. There is absolutely no way Voldemort could just do this.

It seemed that the weaker his counterattack was, the more Jon felt that there was a storm hidden behind it.

In the last week of October, five days before Halloween, Dumbledore suddenly called Jon to the principal's office that evening.

The principal's room remained the same as before, but Jon felt a different atmosphere, and this unusual feeling came from the portraits of previous principals on the walls.

When he came here before, most of these portraits would be pretending to be snoring, secretly opening their eyes to look at him, but now these portraits are all empty.

No one inside was left among the portraits, leaving only empty photo frames. The entire wall looked like a photo frame shop displaying its products.

"Perhaps the current situation has reached the most critical situation since the fall of Hogwarts Castle seven years ago, Jon."

Dumbledore looked at Jon deeply. He didn't have any extra words, but went straight to the point and told Jon a piece of news that was like thunder.

Even though he had been warned before, Jon still looked at him blankly.

"Professor, I don't understand. Are we surrounded by the Dark Lord's men without even realizing it?"

Dumbledore's voice was calm, but it was because he was different from usual, with an inexplicable calmness that gave people a more uneasy feeling.

"If we are surrounded, we only need to find a way to break out of the encirclement. Even if the Dark Lord comes in person, I am sure to contain him and let the people from the Order of the Phoenix take them to continue their escape. But the current situation is Yes, we have nowhere to go.”

He pulled out a newspaper full of French from the side of his desk and placed it in front of Jon. On it was a determined witch raising her fist towards the camera.

Knowing that Jon couldn't read the French above, Dumbledore directly read the news headline on the newspaper's front page.

"[The temporary parliamentary meeting was held in advance and will decide the future of the French wizarding community on October 25th]"